I'm looking for The Book that explains the essentials of user interface and user experience design.
I read Beautiful Visualization and Designing Interfaces from O'Reilly. I think they are very good ...

My background is in web development, not UI design. I have no problem creating the layout and getting it pixel-perfect, but I can never figure out what colors to use and where. I have seen projects ...

I would like to put together an online portfolio for my UX work. However given that I work in-house on a single project, rather than for an agency, I'm wondering what I ought to include.
Are videos ...

How do you make wireframes for responsive or fluid layouts? Typical wireframing techniques are static and aren't well suited to showing how designs scale. What techniques exist to capture the dynamic ...

As ux professionals:
what events do you make a point of attending? (whether for education, networking, etc)
why? (what benefits do you feel you gain)
what is your go-to source for finding out about ...

Mari Sheibley is the lead designer of foursquare and has created this awesome site comparing mobile UI patterns - for example showing how a feed page looks in different applications, etc.
I've found ...

Is it possible to use UX principles and methods that we use when creating human-computer interfaces when we design other (not related with IT) products or services? Can we improve the interface of a ...

Please could you recommend some reference texts or other resources concerned with business data visualisation and dashboard design.
There's Information Dashboard Design by Stephen Few on Amazon but ...

I've always used istockphoto to find images for personas but I'm finding it increasingly difficult to find 'real' looking people. I feel that the more real they look the more believable they are. But ...

I've seen the Gestalt principles or laws referenced often when it comes to graphic design and even UI and UX.
Is there some definitive guide, book or original research about this subject that I can ...

So, I've read Sketching User Experience by Bill Buxton and several blogs discussion how to start the ideation process in a good way with sketching. I've also read about different pens, such as Copic ...

Are there any excellent sites out there that evaluate a website's loading speed at different levels of Internet connection?
I have used this site in the past but the information is out of date and I ...

Sometimes I'll be working on a project and wonder if someone has already researched a particular problem.
The issue is that I don't currently have a good way to easily search through existing bodies ...

I'm not really sure if this is the best place to ask this question.
In this article, Joel Spolsky argues a case for feature bloat. In summary: the total userbase requires all the features, and if you ...

I work for a company that produces an appliance that's designed to be configurable via a Web interface. We have such an interface that 'works', but it's sort of dismal and we're looking to basically ...

I'm looking for some good resources on mobile form design. There seems to be a lot for web forms, and a lot of that translates well. But a lot translates poorly when you have restricted screen real ...

I am a user experience researcher working primary on websites. I am considering shifting to the hardware domain and I am wondering what kind of general reference resources are out there about hardware ...

I am looking for public data sources about specific target groups. Although doing your own research probably gives the best results, having a kind of database with common target audiences would be a ...

I’ve got a question about public visual asset storage for the group.
I work at a small boutique-style consultancy that includes 9 back-end devs, 1 UX designer (me), and a business development person.
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My team and I have been using MS word to deliver UX specs to our developers. Our documents include a section for: final visuals, content, wireframes, interaction notes, and business analysis flows. ...

I am very interested in user interface design and improving the user's experience. Therefore, I am thinking of moving my career in the direction of usability. I would like to try to teach myself as ...

Edit: I'm looking more for the content released by companies not in the operating system/browser world. Sure, there's a ton of stuff out there from Microsoft, Apple, Mozilla, etc. about their UIs and ...

We are doing a complete overhaul of our website a fresh install of wordpress and new theme. In the process we will be removing everything from our root web directory and starting fresh. Over the past ...

I am redesigning and restyling an intranet the first time.
I looked at the Nielsen-Norman articles on the web (free version) and while I came across many papers talking about the major steps to take ...

On the site I'm working on, users will at some point have to assign a user as the manager for a particular resource. Let's make up a resource and a manager, just to illustrate what's going on here:
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I'm currently designing a UI interaction where there is a resource allocation (100%) distributed across two or more settings (where all settings add up to equal to or less than 100%).
For instance:
...

Are there any good sites to buy iPhone / iPad Application design templates?
Think website templates, but for iOS devices.
During research, I found Tapptics, which is a good start.
However ideally I ...